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Gangs deeply rooted on U.S. side of Mexico border
Reuters ^ | April 22, 2009 | Ed Stoddard and Jessica Rinaldi

Posted on 04/22/2009 9:44:17 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe

In semi-rural Hidalgo County which lies to the north of the Rio Grande River separating Texas and Mexico, Sheriff Guadalupe Trevino reckons that there are about two dozen hardcore gangs operating -- a staggering number for a county with about 750,000 people.

"We have a serious gang problem here and have for a long time ... I believe we have more gangs than any other county on the border," Trevino told Reuters.

The extent of the problem -- the gangs often keep their fighting among themselves -- is hard to comprehend driving past citrus orchards or down the busy roads leading to the border. Some of the towns here are among the safest in the country.

But driving in poor, run-down neighborhoods in an unmarked SUV, heavily armed members of Trevino's elite gang enforcement unit point out gang graffiti scrawled on the sides of ramshackle homes. "Brown Pride" and "Tri-City Bombers" are among the many gangs competing for local turf. ....

Gangs and their culture of violence, drugs and crime are one of America's pressing social ills. But in the borderlands the problem has an urgency that has federal investigators worried.

"In the United States the local gangs play a major role in the distribution of the drugs brought in from Mexico. In southern California there has been significant cooperation between the drug cartels and the gangs there," said Matthew J. Desarno, acting unit chief of the Safe Streets and Gang Unit at Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters.

"We believe that the gangs in Texas are following that (southern California) model to establish links with the cartels to expand their own business operations ... Gang members will do what is profitable," he told Reuters by phone.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: US: Texas
KEYWORDS: aliens; corruption; crimaliens; gangs; immigration; mexico; narcoterror; thankprohibition; wod
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1 posted on 04/22/2009 9:44:17 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe

bring back firing squads


2 posted on 04/22/2009 9:50:17 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: Tailgunner Joe

4 easy steps.

1. declare Texas independence
2. militarize and seal the border
3. round up and repatriate all illegals

and.........

4. rinse and repeat until clean!!


3 posted on 04/22/2009 9:52:29 PM PDT by NeverForgetBataan
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Janet will be right on this, right after she's
done with rounding up the Vets, Christians, Conservatives
and closing the boarder and cutting off trade with those
evil Canadians.


4 posted on 04/22/2009 9:53:21 PM PDT by DaveTesla (You can fool some of the people some of the time......)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

If they are gangs and they like to fight with each othe then great.

Catch em. Throw em on some god forsaken desert island in the middle of the Pacific ocean and let them fight as much as they like.

Fly over from time to time and kick out a few loaves of bread to give them something else to fight over.


5 posted on 04/22/2009 9:59:07 PM PDT by NeverForgetBataan
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To: LeoWindhorse

Bring back john wayne.


6 posted on 04/22/2009 10:12:12 PM PDT by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Bring back public hangings and hang signs around their necks indicating the name of their gang.

I was just telling the wife today that this scourge is only going to keep growing until sane adults implement the required degree of force to stop it.

We have to make anti-social behavior too painful to engage in, if we want it to stop.


7 posted on 04/22/2009 10:13:49 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: NeverForgetBataan
Throw em on some god forsaken desert island in the middle of the Pacific ocean and let them fight as much as they like.

Already being done. It's called 'SURVIVOR'.

8 posted on 04/22/2009 10:14:10 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Gangs deeply rooted on U.S. side of Mexico border

This is probably why Wonder Boy and his D'RAT Congress want to ban Americans from owning firearms. Armed Americans could be hazardous to the health of these maggots.

9 posted on 04/22/2009 10:26:44 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (So Orwell was off by 25 years! So what!)
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Ok. Go with me on this one....

Arrest all illegals you can find. all entering - all already here in U.S. anywhere. Maine to California.

Form them into work gangs to build the fence that we will throw them back over when it’s done.

Have them supervised and assisted by the owners of construction and contracting companies that think it’s ok to employ this vermin. (They got the experience at building stuff...right?)

Have it all managed and directed by old East German border guards. I’m shure that they would be more that willing to consult for a fee. After all.... they ran a very effective fence for 40 some odd years.


10 posted on 04/22/2009 10:35:13 PM PDT by NeverForgetBataan
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>>Gangs deeply rooted on U.S. side of Mexico border<<

Give these animals a dirt nap they deserve. They are terrorists.

11 posted on 04/22/2009 10:40:29 PM PDT by afnamvet
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To: Tailgunner Joe; 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; ...

Ping!


12 posted on 04/22/2009 11:26:41 PM PDT by HiJinx (~ Support Our Troops ~ www.AmericaSupportsYou.mil ~)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

We have a horrible gang problem here in Georgia as well. I live in Gwinnett County, now considered a gang capital. Believe me, they do not hide, they are proud of themselves, yet there they are. We have a gang task force but I have yet to figure out what they do. Common sense would tell you to go into their neighborhoods and arrest every single one of them but that does not happen. They breed like roaches too.


13 posted on 04/23/2009 3:29:46 AM PDT by panthermom
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To: Tailgunner Joe

The street gangs originated in the US and were then exported to Latin America.


14 posted on 04/23/2009 4:26:02 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Yeah, but it is the “extremist” you really have to watch out for!


15 posted on 04/23/2009 4:27:38 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Meanwhile....

Letter: Two Americans say "Sorry, Canada"

16 posted on 04/23/2009 4:28:16 AM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: Tailgunner Joe; GulfBreeze; rellimpank; AH_LiveRight; BGHater; nbhunt; La Lydia; jafojeffsurf; ...

Pistoleros ping!

If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.


17 posted on 04/23/2009 10:31:01 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch (Mexas - beyond your expectations!)
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To: NeverForgetBataan

BRING BACK SAM HOUSTON!


18 posted on 04/23/2009 10:35:26 AM PDT by stan_sipple
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To: Tailgunner Joe
There's an excellent reason "Gangland" is run nearly everyday on one of three shake-n-bake cable channels.
19 posted on 04/23/2009 10:37:46 AM PDT by Landru (Arghh, Liberals are trapped in my colon like spackle or paste.)
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To: afnamvet

“>>Gangs deeply rooted on U.S. side of Mexico border<<

Give these animals a dirt nap they deserve. They are terrorists.”
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The ‘Mexico border’ is all over the United States.

From a Medford, Oregon official:

April 14, 2009 - 6:43 PM

Gang violence is on the rise in Medford.[Oregon]

In this week’s Crimestoppers, we take a closer look at the growing gang problem in this area.

Police have arrested six people associated with three gang attacks in just the past few weeks.

The most recent attack, police say, three teenagers beat up a 29-year-old father from Ashland while he was eating with his wife and child at the food court in the mall on Saturday.

Gangs have been in the area for years, but now some say the gang members are getting more dangerous and reaching new levels of violence.

Police say four gang members jumped a 16-year-old in Medford late last month, severely fracturing his jaw.

Police say this local highschoolers’ been hit by a gang before.

Matt Sweeney works with incarcerated youth gang members and those trying to get out.

“We’re being invaded,” he says.

http://www.ktvl.com/articles/gang_1189817___article.html/police_medford.html


20 posted on 04/23/2009 11:16:14 AM PDT by AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925; Foreigners 2008)
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